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Goodbye to Belva Plain

We were sad to hear about the passing of Belva Plain, age 95, the best-selling novelist who wrote about Jewish-American life (and became a bestseller at age 59!) with her first book, Evergreen. You can read her obit in the New York Times.

Bantam Dell confirms that her new book Heartwood is still on schedule to publish on February 8, 2011.

Goodbye to Belva Plain

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